Climate change effects on biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, and natural resource management in the United States

SR Weiskopf, MA Rubenstein, LG Crozier… - Science of the Total …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Climate change is a pervasive and growing global threat to biodiversity and ecosystems.
Here, we present the most up-to-date assessment of climate change impacts on biodiversity …

Flash droughts present a new challenge for subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction

AG Pendergrass, GA Meehl, R Pulwarty… - Nature Climate …, 2020‏ - nature.com
Flash droughts are a recently recognized type of extreme event distinguished by sudden
onset and rapid intensification of drought conditions with severe impacts. They unfold on …

Evidence of anthropogenic impacts on global drought frequency, duration, and intensity

F Chiang, O Mazdiyasni, A AghaKouchak - Nature communications, 2021‏ - nature.com
Most climate change detection and attribution studies have focused on mean or extreme
temperature or precipitation, neglecting to explore long-term changes in drought …

Anthropogenic climate change has influenced global river flow seasonality

H Wang, J Liu, M Klaar, A Chen, L Gudmundsson… - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Riverine ecosystems have adapted to natural discharge variations across seasons.
However, evidence suggesting that climate change has already impacted magnitudes of …

Large contribution from anthropogenic warming to an emerging North American megadrought

AP Williams, ER Cook, JE Smerdon, BI Cook… - Science, 2020‏ - science.org
Severe and persistent 21st-century drought in southwestern North America (SWNA)
motivates comparisons to medieval megadroughts and questions about the role of …

Twenty‐first century drought projections in the CMIP6 forcing scenarios

BI Cook, JS Mankin, K Marvel, AP Williams… - Earth's …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
There is strong evidence that climate change will increase drought risk and severity, but
these conclusions depend on the regions, seasons, and drought metrics being considered …

Globally observed trends in mean and extreme river flow attributed to climate change

L Gudmundsson, J Boulange, HX Do, SN Gosling… - Science, 2021‏ - science.org
Anthropogenic climate change is expected to affect global river flow. Here, we analyze time
series of low, mean, and high river flows from 7250 observatories around the world covering …

[HTML][HTML] Climate change is increasing the likelihood of extreme autumn wildfire conditions across California

M Goss, DL Swain, JT Abatzoglou… - Environmental …, 2020‏ - iopscience.iop.org
California has experienced devastating autumn wildfires in recent years. These autumn
wildfires have coincided with extreme fire weather conditions during periods of strong …

Observed impacts of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire in California

AP Williams, JT Abatzoglou, A Gershunov… - Earth's …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Recent fire seasons have fueled intense speculation regarding the effect of anthropogenic
climate change on wildfire in western North America and especially in California. During …

Growing impact of wildfire on western US water supply

AP Williams, B Livneh, KA McKinnon… - Proceedings of the …, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Streamflow often increases after fire, but the persistence of this effect and its importance to
present and future regional water resources are unclear. This paper addresses these …